Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-11


and william Tennent lived to write out
the expel fence OF what he had seen while
his soul was gone. 1t may be found
some time that what is called suspended
animation or comatose state is brief
death, giving the soul an excursion into
the next world from which it comes back,
q furlough OF q few hours granted from
the conflict of life to which it must re-
turn. Do not this waking up of men
from trance, and this waking up of in
sects from winter llfelessness, and this
waking up of grains buried 5000 years
ago, make it easier for you to believe that
your body and mine after the vacation OF
the grave shall rouse and rally, though
there be 5000 years between our last
breath and the sounding of the archan-
gelic reveille? Psychologists tell US that
while the most of our bodies are built
with such wonderful economy that we can
spare nothing, and the loss of a finger IS
Underwent, and the injury of toe
Joint makes US lame, still that we have
two or three useless physical apParati,
and no anatomist or psychologist has ever
been able to tell what they ere good for.
They are no doubt the foundation of the
resurrection body, worth nothing to
as in this state, to be indispensably valua-
BILE in the next state. The Jewish rabbis
had only hint of this suggestion when
they said that in the human frame there
was small bone which they said was to
be the basis of the resurrection body.
Perhaps that may have been delusiOn,
but this thing is certain-the Christian
scientists of our day have found out that
there are two or three superstitiOns of
body that are something gloriously sug-
gestive of another state.
I called at nv friends house one sum-
mer day. I found the yard all piled up
with the rubbish of carpenter and masons'
work; the door was off; the plumbers
had torn up the floor; the roof was being
lifted in cupOla; all the pictures were
gone and the paperhangers were doing
their work. All the modern improvements
were being introduced into that dwelling.
There was not room in the house tit to
live in at that time, although month be-
fore when l visited that house everything
was so beautiful that | could suggest no
improvement. My friend had gone with
his family to the Holy Land, expecting to
come back at the end OF the six months,
when the building was to be done; and .
what was his Joy when at the end of the
six months he returned and the old house
wss enlarged and improved and glOrifed.
That is your body. 1t looks well now
all the rooms filed with health-and we
could hardly make suggestion. But after
awhile your soul will 60 to the Holy Land,
and while you are gone the old house of
your tabernacle will be entirely recon
struCted from cellar to attic, and every
nerve, muscle and bone and tissue aud
artery must be hauled over, and the old
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned
and raised and cupOlaed and enlarged and
all the improvements of heaven intro
duced and you will move into it
on resurrection day. For we know
that if our earthly house of
building of God, q house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens" o, what
day when body and soul. meet again.
They are very fond of each other. Did
your body ever have pain and your soul
not pity it? or your body have Joy and
your soul not re-echo it? or, changing
the question, did your soul ever have any
trouble and your body not sympathiZe
with it? growing wan and weak under the
depressing influence. Or did your soul
ever have q gladness but your body cele-
brated it with kindled eye and cheek and
elastic step? Surely God never intended
two such good friends to be very
long separated. And so when the
worlds last Easter morning shall
come the soul will descend,
crying, "Where is my body?" and the
body will ascend, saying, "Where is my
soul?" and the Lord of the resurrection
will bring them together, and it will be
perfect soul in perfect body, introduced
by perfect Christ into perfect heaven.
Victory! Do you wonder that to-day we
sWathe this house with garlands? Do you
wonder we celebrate it with the most
conse Grated voice of song that we can
invite, and with the deftest fingers on
organ and cOrnet, and with doXologtes
that beat these arches with the
pillows of sound as the sea smites the
basalt at Giants Causeway? Only the
bad disapprOve of the resurrection.
cruel heather warrior heard Mr..
Moffat, the missionary, preach about the
resurrection, and he said to the mission
airy: "Will my father rise in the last
day?" eyes" said the missionary.
"WilI all the dead in battle
rlse?" said the cruel chieftain. eyes"
said the missionary. "Then," said the
warrior, 'Get me hear no more about the
resurrection day. There can be no resur-
reCtion, there shall be no resurrection.
l have slain thousands in battle. Will
they rise?" All, there will be more to
rise on that day than those want to see
whose crimes have never been repented
of. But for all others who allowed Christ
to be their pardon and their life and
resurrection it will be day of victory.
The thurders of the last day will be the
salvo that greets you into harbor. The
lightnings will be only the torches of
triumphal procession marching down to
escort you home. The burning worlds
flashing through immensely will be the
rockets celebrating your coronation on
thrones where you will reign forever and
forever and forever. Where is death
What have we to do with death AS
your reunited body and soul swing OFF
from this planet on that last day you will
see deep gashes all up and down the
hills, deep gashes all through the valleys,
and they will be the emptied graves, they
will be the abandoned sepulchers, with
rough ground tossed on either side of
them, and slabs will lie uneven on the